Improvement in show-cases



UNITE-n STATES BA'IENT OFFICE.

HENRY e. DORR, JR., or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AssIeNOR TO WILLIAM MILLs a sON, OF sAMErLAoE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOW-CASES.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,913, dated November 25, 1879; application filed October 9, 1879.

To all lwhom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY G. DoRR, Jr., of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Show-Gases for Needles, of which the following is a specitcation.

My invention relates ,to showcases for eX- hibitin g needles in papers, which are provided with a series ot' cells or compartments for containing papers of needles of different sizes 5 and its object is to provide a simple and inexpensive method ot' dividing the interior of said ease into the cells or compartments.

To this end my invention consists in askeleton frame forming the cells or compartments of a needle-exhibitin g case, consisting ot' a single casting composed of a loilgitu'dinal web having branches extending at right angles thereto, and provided with lips or iianges at the top. VThe said branches are preferably arranged at ditTerent distances apart, and gradually increased in length from one end ot' the web toward the other, so Vas to form compartments or cells of dil'erent sizes.

It alsoconsists in the combination, with a needle-case, of two or more such skeleton frames arranged therein and forming cells or compartments.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a showcase embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 represents a transverse section thereof. Fig. 3 represents a perspective `view of a casting forming the cells or compartments detached from the case, and Fig. 4a side view ot` a portion of said castn g.

-Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the gures.

A designates the body of the showcase, which is a plain box formed of wood, and provided upon its exterior with suitable moldings for enhancing its appearance. It isfurnished with a hinged cover, B, which is preferably glazed, so that the papers ot' needles may be inspected without raising it.

C C C2 designate rows of cells or compartments, into which the case is divided, and

which are ot' sizes to receive papers of needles' of different sizes. Each row of cells or compartments consists of a skeleton frame formed `of a single casting, and composed of a longitudinal web, D, having extending from it at right angles, and preferably at different distances apart, a series of branches, D', which form a series of cells or compartments open on one side. l

At the top of the cells or compartments is represented an inwardly extending lip or flange, a, extending around three sides of the cell or compartment.

The web D and the branches D', together with the lip a', are all made in one piece of metal or other material, such as rubber or celluloid, by casting or molding, and to reduce the weight the web and branches are cut away on the bottom, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3, so as to leave but a skeleton frame-Work.

Although the web D is here represented as long enough to extend from side to side of the case A, it might be made in two pieces of half otl the length, properly joined at the middle of the case.

In each of the cells or compartments is a spring, E, of spiral form, and above the spring, and adapted to move vertically in the cell or compartment, is afollower or plate, F, between which and the lugs or anges a the papers otl needles are clamped by the upward pressure of the spring, and as fast as the papers of needles are withdrawn from the cell or compartment others rise to take their place.

In order to provide for the convenient withdrawal ot' papers from any of the cells or compartments,.the tops ot' the cells of each series are on a higher level than the preceding series. As here represented, the cells or compart ments C are on a higher level than the cells or compartments C, and the cells or compartments C2 are on ahigher level than C. This maybe effected by making the web and branches D ot' each frame deeper than those of the preceding frame.

` In order to till the rectangular show-case A with the dit't'erent cells or compartments without loss of space, I have represented the branches D in the lower frame as about equal -in length, while the two other series increase gradually in length from one end toward the other, and are arranged in reverse positions, as clearly shown in Fig. l, so as to be adapted to a rectangular show-case.

As the cells or compartments are made by placing the frames forming them in a plain Wooden box and securing them properly in position, it is evident that by my invention I provide for making such needle-cases in an inexpensive manner.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. Askeleton frame forming the cells or coinpartments of a needle-exhibiting case, consisting of a single casting composed of a longitudinal web havin g branches eXtendin g at right angles thereto, and provided Withlips orian ges at the top, substantially as specified.

2.,The combination, with a needle-ease, of one or more skeleton frames, each consisting of a single casting composed of a longitudinal Web having branches extending at right angles thereto, and provided With lips or lian ges at the top, substantially as speciied.

3. The` combination, with a needle-ease, of two or more skeleton frames, each consisting of a single casting composed of a longitudinal Web having branches eXtendin g at right angles thereto at different distances apart, the said branches increasing in length from one end of said Web toward the other, and arranged in said case so that the skeleton frames adjacent to each other taper in opposite directions, substantially as specified.

H. G. DORR, JR. Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES,

E. P. JEssUP. 

